Materials	plaster, polystyrene and steel
Height:	cm. 90.00
Width:	cm. 120.00
Depth:	cm. 22.00

 

1988| YOUNG BRITISH ART or BRITART. The desecrating spirit of youth.

Closet 1988 No Future (Sound of the Sinners) 1988 - 1989 Yellow Leaf 1989 Ledger 1989 Above All Else 1991 Untitled (Amber Bed) 1991 Untitled (Black Bed) 1991 Untitled (Floor) 1994 AWAY FROM THE FLOCK 1994 Untitled (Sixteen Spaces) 1995 In Out IV 2000 Don’t think about it 2001 In Out IX 2004 In Out XIII 2004 1-Pentanol 2005 Flowers 2005 Rest 2005 Lean 2005 Village 2006

RACHEL WHITEREAD

Untitled

2000

 

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In 1995, while working on the project for the Holocaust Monument in Vienna (1995-2000), Whiteread made a cast of three shelves with books and at the 1997 Venice Biennale she exhibited the outlines in negative of a bookcase (Untitled (Paperbacks)). She used old paperbacks, aligning them on a shelf and then immersing them in plaster. When this dried, shelf and books were physically removed, leaving in the negative the irregular profiles of the volumes the traces of their colours and fragments of print: melancholy phantoms of a knowledge now irremediably lost.